No-reference quality assessment for networked video via primary analysis of bit stream

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1544-1554

  Yang, Fuzheng ^a   Wan, Shuai ^b   Xie, Qingpeng ^c   Wu, Hong Ren ^d  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coding distortion; networked video; no reference video quality assessment; packet loss; temporal pooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149340415     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2010.2087433     Document Type: Article

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